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Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in ‘magic’ mushrooms, may be an effective way to treat depression in patients that have seen no benefit from other, standard forms of treatment, early results suggest.

In a pilot study involving just 12 people with treatment-resistant depression, two doses of the mushroom compound cleared symptoms in eight participants—67 percent—after one week. After three months and no other doses, seven participants still reported reduced depressive symptoms, including five—42 percent—who reported complete remission of their depression.

A. bisporus is known by many names. A young specimen with a closed cap and either pale white or light brown flesh is known as a button mushroom or white mushroom. In strains with darker flesh, the immature mushroom is variously marketed as a cremini mushroom, baby portobello, baby bella, mini bella, portabellini, Roman mushroom, Italian mushroom, or brown mushroom. At this stage of maturation, the cap also may begin to open slightly. In maturity, the mushroom is called a portobello.The French name is champignon de Paris (“Paris mushroom”).

The spellings “portobello”, “portabella”, and “portabello” are all used, but the first of these spellings is the most common.

Correction: Crimini/cremini and white/button mushrooms are not different stages of maturity. They are the same stage of different breeds of the same species. White mushrooms originated as an albino mutation of the original browns.

But the difference between crimini/cremini and portobellos is the same as bell peppers. Green, red, and yellow bell peppers are just at different stages of maturity.

Q: Do they taste different?

They do.

The white/button are pretty bland, and will take on any flavor when cooked. They are great as fillers.

Crimini/cremini are pretty mild – they have a slight earthy flavor. They make great side dish for meat dishes.

Portobello are pretty robust. They have a strong earthy woody flavor. They make great mushroom soup and will hold their own against other strong flavors. Portobello are great for making stuffed mushroom dishes.

To stop all those $20 side tables from getting banged up, Ikea has to use a lot of polystyrene packaging every year. Unfortunately, polystyrene isn’t biodegradable, and people are bad at recycling, leaving Ikea looking for a better material to stick between sheets of ply.

I’m curious about the cost of this vs traditional cardboard or bubble wrap. I use to do production for an ‘eco’ friendly company that ships product to customers using insanely wasteful amounts of bubble wrap.

The portabello mushroom: Great with grilled onions and ketchup, sure, but this fungus can do a lot more than console vegetarians at barbecues. In the future, the humble portabello mushroom might power everything from our smartphones to our cars.

If you’re as fair-skinned as the average northern European, you only need about 20 minutes per day. All you have to show is an area of skin about the size of your face.

Without vitamin D from sunlight exposure, lactose assists with the use of calcium. So, cultures with easy access to leafy greens plus sunlight or fish, calcium is taken care of and milk has no advantage. Cultures without access to leafy greens, sunlight or seafood need dairy either as a source of calcium, lactose, or both. You can read more about it in a previous post.

St Anthony’s Fire was one of the things that made the Middle Ages a horrible time in which to live. People would feel a pricking sensation in their arms or legs. This would turn to burning pain, and the arm would swell and redden before turning gangrenous and dropping off. You were lucky if the limb simply died without taking you with it.